Review of "So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is a very niche reading. For starters, it's a light novel aka the written word version of a manga. Then it's author chose to portray the actual gameplay of certain RPG games... player and monster statistics included. Pages and pages of numbers representing the status, abilities and skills of either the protagonist or her foes. Add to these that the original was a Japanese "novel" in the same sense that Wattpad has "novels"; and the fact that it's translation uses the present tense all the time, and you'll get the picture: this is just for entertainment. A palate cleanser between "heavy" books.
Having said that, if you are the right kind of geek, it is very good entertainment!